Roy Cohn

NOTE:  There have been a lot of references to Roy Cohn recently, including Donald Trump wanting a Roy Cohn as Attorney General of the United States, not respecting the fact that the Attorney General should be the American people’s attorney rather than a partisan loyal to a person. Here’s information on Mr. Cohn’s background:

Roy Marcus Cohn (1927–1986) is best known for his work as the chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose interrogations of alleged communists during the cold war “red scare” contributed to a chilling effect on freedom of speech and freedom of association in the 1950s.

Cohn became knows for prosecuting people with alleged ties to Communists

Cohn, the only child of a New York judge, earned his law degree from Columbia University at the age of 20. In his first job, working for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, he quickly made a name for himself prosecuting cases of people with alleged ties to the Communist Party.

Impressed with Cohn’s performance at the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover recommended that he be hired as chief counsel to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy, who chaired the panel, hired the 24 year-old Cohn in January 1953.

View the complete article by Gina Logue on the Middle Tennessee State University’s website here.